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Your time to commune with nature is dwindling. (You’ve got about a month, tops, before it’s strictly log cabin weather.) Luckily, the leather experts at Makr—who’ve gone from making the blogger-bait of slim wallets to building a small empire of neo-rustic home goods—just teamed up with the outdoorsmen of Seattle’s Scout for a capsule collection of handsome camping gear. There’s a hickory- and brass-pole tent, an insulated field bed wrapped in selvage denim, bone-handle pocketknives and some rugged hiking boots from Oak Street Bootmakers. It’s more of the handsome, unfussy, low-over-high-tech stuff we prefer—that’ll come in handy should you be planning any last-minute autumnal getaways.

And if you’re worried about staying warm, the tent happens to have just enough room for two.

Olympic excitement has risen to a rolling boil across the pond, and the latest result is this Olympic Survival Kit from British designer Oliver Spencer. It’s a well-appointed selection of essentials (a change of T-shirt, a weather-resistant windbreaker, aftershave, a London city guide and more) for braving the 2012 Summer Games all tucked into a Seil Marschall mini canoe pack that will come in handy long after the competition has come and gone. No word on whether they’ll leave the bag for you at Olympic Stadium’s Will Call.

The Princess and The Peacoat: Amanda Brooks has a thing for men in uniform. [Men's Vogue]

Okay, Who Farted?: Gucci and Louis Vuitton unveiled diamond-encrusted, WMD-proof gas-masks at the Bucharest Luxury fair because, really, who wants to survive a ricin attack in just any old thing? [Complex]